Community Outreach
Carnegie Mellon, Heinz Endowments Launch Center for Shared Prosperity Carnegie Mellon University and The Heinz Endowments announced the launch of the Center for Shared Prosperity, an initiative to leverage the university’s internationally recognized strengths in applied research to address longstanding barriers to equity and foster economic empowerment in the greater Pittsburgh region. With an administrative home in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the center aims to create a sustainable and replicable model for community-university collaboration, with a focus on deploying solutions for socio-economic inequities and making measurable progress toward greater economic prosperity and overall well-being of residents. The Heinz Endowments has committed $30 million over six years to the initiative. The grant, the largest in the Endowments’ history, includes funding to develop, pilot and scale region-wide interventions to identify and address structural barriers to access and opportunity. A portion of the grant will be used to establish an endowment to support the center’s work in perpetuity. Illah Nourbakhsh , K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies, serves as the center’s inaugural executive director. The center’s staff includes Marlene Williams , operations director; Jay Manning , documentarian, and Jessica Kaminski and Jordan Mroziak , community engagement specialists. Learn more about the Center for Shared Prosperity and its Community Committee.
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